Mental Health Awareness Week – 50% Off Until Sunday!

At this time every year the Mental Health Foundation helps to raise awareness and to generate public debates around mental health and wellbeing issues, stretching the importance of well-being, emotional welfare or mental health in living a fulfilled life. Mental health issues include serious long-term as well as minor conditions that can be experienced in everyday life. In fact everyone experience periods of stress, anxiety or uncomfortable feelings. The way we think and feel about ourselves impacts on our behavior and consequently on the way we cope with life and we fulfill our potential.

‘None of us is immune from the existential worry that nags away in the back of our mind’ writes Russell Razzaque in Breaking Down is Waking Up, but ‘deep down inside every bubbling cauldron of insecurity, we can also find the seeds of a kind of liberation’. As much as mental illness is frightening and challenging it also represents a way to uncovering spiritual revelations, unveiling an inner and undiscovered potential.

In conjunction with the Mental Health Awareness Week and inspired by our newly published books, we present a list of selected books on mindfulness and wellbeing. All 50% off during this week! Click here to see the full list.

Out in paperback this month is Yogi Ashokananda’s The Power of Relaxation, a unique and down‐to‐earth approach to meditation and relaxation. Starting by focusing on the body and using scientific evidence as well as the ancient wisdom of tantra, Yogi explains the importance of relaxation in accessing the energy hidden within our body and ultimately in finding our true self.

A Sanskrit proverb claims, ‘If you breathe well, you will live long on earth.’ Renowned yoga teacher Swami Saradananda aims to give gentle guidance on the art of breathing.In The Power of Breath he offers advice on discovering how the simple art of breathing can improve health and well-being.

Also out in paperback is Switch On by Nick Seneca Jankel, a book based on 20 years of research and experience at the forefront of personal, social and corporate change. The result is Breakthrough Biodynamics, a groundbreaking fusion of the latest neuroscience, evolution, ancient traditions, practical philosophy and powerful tools for making transformation happen.

Sleeping disorders can be caused by stress or worries. Leading expert on sleep disorders Chris Idzikowski shares practical advices and exercises on how to combat your sleep problems.Tackling the common sleeping problems, Sound Asleep and You Can Sleep Well prove to be a practical guide to understanding and satisfying your sleep and offering solutions for sleeping more soundly and healthily.

The Mindfulness Breakthrough is written by a team of practicing therapists led by Sarah Silverton and explains how to practice mindfulness, using illustrated step-by-step exercises to help the reader understand key techniques such as breathing, relaxation, body scanning and concentration building.

In Positive Psychology for Overcoming Depression, author Miriam Akhtar demonstrates how to follow the principles of positive psychology and cultivate positive emotions in order to overcome depression and live a happier, more fulfilled life.

You can see the full list of selected books on sale this week on our website.

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